Lead Engineer - AIPS Recommendations

About The Team

The AI & Platform Services (AIPS) team exists within the Seek Group and provides AI-centric core services that scale globally including search recommendations candidate matching ontological services behavioural tracking and personalisation.

AIPS works primarily with internal partners delivering services to these partners who in turn deliver products to customers (candidates hirers)

Members of the AIPS team fall into one of three primary roles

• AI (artificial intelligence and machine learning)

• Strategy (business product go to market)
• Engineering (development devops operationalisation of models)

People representing each of these roles are combined into squads which are in turn responsible for related sets of business services.

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to join the Recommendations team within AIPS and provide leadership in solving some of SEEKs most interesting and challenging problems. Our teams are cross-functional and youll collaborate with data scientists engineers and product managers across a diverse and extensive problem domain. In this role you will lead the development and delivery of complex engineering solutions to enable AI/ML-powered services that help identify quality candidates for jobs.

The key responsibilities of this position on a day-to-day basis include:

• Designing building and maintaining scalable high-performance components and services that align with the teams objectives.
• Owning and evolving the system architecture in accordance with best practices and SEEK principles.
• Being responsible for your service in production its consistent uptime troubleshooting non-functional SLAs.
• Coordinating the design and implementation process to uphold SEEKs high standards while ensuring the team remains aligned with agreed roadmaps and timelines.
• Supporting experiments to assess the performance of various algorithms and using the results to iteratively improve the platform.
• Leading a small team of engineers providing line management and supporting their career development through coaching constructive feedback and actionable suggestions for improvement.
• Collaborating with peers in Data Science Product Management and other stakeholders across the business to influence product evolution and drive critical decisions.

Qualifications :

Technical Skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• Strong technical skills and significant hands-on coding experience
• Solid background in software engineering with 10 years of experience
• Skilled in crafting robust software architecture
• Proficient in Python Scala or Java
• Proficient in Linux environments and Bash scripting
• Strong SQL skills
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform EC2 ECS SQS SNS Batch Lambda Athena CloudFormation S3 SageMaker DynamoDB RDS etc.
• Proficient in cloud-native development including serverless frameworks and containerization tools to build scalable and efficient solutions.
• Proven track record to build and maintain scalable resilient systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Professional Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent hand-on coding skills
• Good understanding of secure coding practices and knowledge of mitigating common vulnerabilities
• Experience in people management and having direct reports
• Working with rapidly evolving designs and requirements
• Requirement gathering and stakeholder management skills
• Clear and effective communication
• Success in cross-functional teamwork
• Dedication to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends

Desired Skills:

While not required having any of the following skills and experiences will be considered a valuable addition:

• Experience with AI/ML tools and platforms

• Experience with Golang
• Experience with Spark

Additional Information :

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners

At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time